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Fruit Sources

Alternative Grape Varieties

Access to alternative grape varieties for 2010 winemaking will this year be coordinated Geoff Neagle.

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Wineshows

EDWG Wineshow 2009

In the third weekend of November we celebrated our 40th Annual Wineshow. This was again an overwhelming success.

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Hot News

Our EDWG Fruit Report is packed with recommendations on where to source quality grapes.

Also our (Grape, Sparkling and Country) Winemaking guides are a must read for all winemakers.

Welcome

logoOn behalf of our Winemakers Guild we want to welcome you to the world of home winemaking.

The Eltham & District Winemakers Guild is committed to the knowledge, skills development and sharing by wine lovers in the art and craft of amateur grape and country wine making and wine assessment.

Our new website is currently undergoing many changes, so make sure you stay tuned over the next months.

Spencer Field
President

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Six Months to Drinking Country Wines Print E-mail
Written by Harry Gilham   
Saturday, 02 January 2010 16:16

Harry Gillam is one of the EDWG leading maker, teacher and judge of country wines, and a well known and highly respected identity who along with his wife, Sue, has contributed much to the wider Eltham community. Harry, as a Life Member of the Guild has long promoted the crafting and consumption of country wines by running regular winemaking courses at the Eltham Living & Learning Centre over a number of decades, member tastings of his own wines at Guild meetings and through the judging of country wines in wine shows in various states. 

The following are just a few ideas for the making of great country wines.

Sources of produce for winemaking

Fruit: Peach, pear, Greengage ‘wild’ plums, cherry, cherry and prune, quince, raspberry, redcurrant, rhubarb, rhubarb and beetroot, strawberry, banana, orange, apple.

Dried: Apricots, bilberries, figs, elderberries, mixed fruit, sultanas, apples.

Flowers: Dandelion, clover, cowslip, hawthorn, elderflower, honeysuckle, marigold, rose petal, hops.

Grains: Wheat, Barley. Rice.

Vegetables: Beetroot, carrot, parsnip, potato, broadbean, peapod, parsley, turnip

Others: Tea, coffe, clover, ginger

Wines for fortification with vodka

Elderberry port, barley, plum, apricot, elderberry, cherry, rice orange, blackcurrent, bilberry

Oak chips

Plum (two weeks)
Last Updated on Monday, 01 February 2010 16:30
 
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Newsflash

January 20, 2010 - January Newsletter is available for download in the Newsletters Section. Topics include: update on Kevin Furness, new website, grape supplies, 0.05 BAC, testing wines and the trading barrel.

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Call For Action

It would be great to receive country wine recipes from any member, especially if you've won a medal for it. If it has won a medal, tell us it's highest award.

If you have taken photo's during our last annual wineshow please contact us.

Share your winemaking knowledge with others and contact us to either suggest a topic, improve current articles or suggest really useful links that other members might like to know about.  

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